"GCS" meaning in English

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Noun

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  1. (emergency medicine) Initialism of Glasgow Coma Scale, a system used by medical workers to score the severity of a patient being transported by ambulance on a number scale. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: Glasgow Coma Scale (extra: a system used by medical workers to score the severity of a patient being transported by ambulance on a number scale)
    Sense id: en-GCS-en-noun-IThMvOAp Categories (other): Emergency medicine Topics: emergency-medicine, medicine, sciences
  2. (medicine) Initialism of gender confirmation surgery. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: gender confirmation surgery
    Sense id: en-GCS-en-noun-NJO1kaJC Categories (other): Medicine, English entries with incorrect language header, English words spelled without vowels, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Transgender Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 34 66 Disambiguation of English words spelled without vowels: 35 65 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 32 68 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 31 69 Disambiguation of Transgender: 0 100 Topics: medicine, sciences
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